Abstract
As the twentieth century progressed, the overall work situation for immigrants and their children changed. Many of those who arrived in the mass migrations between the 1880s and mid-1920s settled in New York’s Lower East Side. Theirs was a hardscrabble life, packed into densely populated tenements, scrambling to make a living, hoping to educate their children so that they could move up and out.
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Henry Bial, Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage & Screen (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005).
Barbara W. Grossman, Funny Woman: The Life and Times of Fanny Brice (Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1991), 60ff.
Horatio Alger, Luck and Pluck: Or, John Oakley’s Inheritance (Nabu Press, New York, 2010).
Michael Alexander, Jazz Age Jews (Princetown University Press, Princetown, NJ, 2001).
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Hecht, S.J. (2011). How to Succeed. In: Transposing Broadway. Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137001740_4
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